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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4294028, member: 110350&quot;]Are there any Roman Imperial coins with such depictions, or do they appear only on Roman Provincial coins?</p><p><br /></p><p>If you&#039;re ever interested in purchasing a Roman bronze figurine of Priapus, so you can view him in all his three-dimensional glory, be careful: the majority of them are probably fakes.&nbsp; (Think about it:&nbsp; how likely is it that such an appendage would survive intact after a couple of thousand years buried in the ground, given how commonly mere arms, legs, noses, and heads break off?)</p><p><br /></p><p>I have no such coin myself, although the obverse of a Q. Titius Republican coin I own has been identified with Mutinus Titius [also spelled Mutunus Tutunus], a local Roman equivalent of Priapus. It shows only a head, though!</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic. Q. Titius, AR Denarius, Rome 90 BCE. Obv. Head of Mutinus Titius[?] [ = Priapus] right w/beard &amp; winged diadem / Rev. Pegasus springing right, “Q TITI” on tablet below. RSC I Titia 1, Crawford 341/1, Sear RCV I 238.&nbsp; 18.5 mm., 3.8 g.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1093140[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><i>See </i>RSC I at p. 91: &quot;The god Mutinus Titius is the same as Priapus, who had a temple at Rome, and who was especially worshipped by young married women.&quot; <i>But see </i>Crawford Vol. I, no. 341/1 at p. 346 &amp; n. 1, challenging the identification of the obverse portrait with Mutinus Titius: &quot;I do not know what the head on 1 is (there are no good grounds for regarding it as that of Mutunus Tutunus),&quot; citing opposing views on the issue.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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